IDUMA EL

Located at 4400 FOSTER LN, in KILLEEN, Texas, IDUMA EL is a roomy elementary campus that serves 801 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by KILLEEN ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 54% above the state mean of about 519.

Across the 55 schools in KILLEEN ISD (42,883 students total), IDUMA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, IDUMA EL records that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 33% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% White, 4% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, IDUMA EL lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 72% of students at IDUMA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Bell County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, IDUMA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.5%; this one delivers 37.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bell County) records that median household income runs about $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which IDUMA EL is one.

ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IDUMA EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 913 students in 2018 compared to 801 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 23% to 33%.

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